“A wise man once said to me: ´Some people don´t know what´s good for them. Sometimes the few can govern the needs of the many better than the many can themselves.´

I´m not sure if he was right. I don´t know whether it´s true that some people inherently need governing. But I challenge any of you to convince me that the people who rule over our lives today ‘know better’. Governments and corporations have had too much power over the people for too long, and they wield that power to their own ends. I looked at the world around me, and I saw war and I saw death and I saw greed and I came to the decision that it’s time I had power. Not over other men’s destinies, but over my own. And so I have worked long and hard, and finally I have that power.

I am offering you the chance to have that power yourselves, and what I ask in return is that you help me offer that power to everyone. I want to build an empire: beyond borders, beyond sex and beyond race. One that does not seek to govern or replace governments, but seeks instead to empower the people.

This is not hyperbole. This may be the most important endeavour mankind has ever undertaken. Imagine Romulus and Remus stood before you, asking that you help them to build Rome.”